Djuric meets with president of China Institute of International Studies

BEIJING - Kicking off a visit to China, Serbian FM Marko Djuric met with the president of the China Institute of International Studies, Chen Bo, on Thursday, and the parties agreed Serbia-China relations were at a historic high.

In a statement, the Serbian MFA said Djuric and Chen had agreed that, through a comprehensive strategic partnership, the two states and the two nations had become steely friends, and noted that an excellent relationship between Presidents Aleksandar Vucic and Xi Jinping had greatly contributed to that.

Djuric said the two countries had achieved a high level of complementariness when it comes to confronting common challenges, and added that a pluralism of opinions on many topics existed in the Serbian society but that there was a full consensus on the attitude to China.

Djuric said he was pleased to meet again with Chen - a former Chinese ambassador to Belgrade - and expressed the confidence that, at the helm of one of the main research and advisory centres of the Chinese MFA, she would continue to contribute to strengthening of Serbia-China relations.

Djuric informed the Institute's representatives of Serbia's political priorities and economic results achieved in the past decade.